MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.

NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.

"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.

Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.

The old lady shows that you don't have to have a mental retardation condition to say stupid things.

It's not that she has been indoctrinated for so long. It's the illogical, primitive caveman-like explanation she tries to conclude.

Why would America spend hundreds of millions of dollars in a covert operation to secretly build a stealth-capable driller able to enter and leave a country without a trace, drill a hole under a little village's lake in Russia?

People who are as retarded like that to even imagine such a thing would be possible should have their sexual organs removed to prevent them from breeding.

I got caught up in a demostration in Russia once.....the babushkas were imploring Russian children not to chew bubble gum because the CIA was putting mind-altering drugs in the bg.....they were serious about that!